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Oman water services utility plans solar power project

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Conrad Prabhu -
Muscat, Jan 16 -
Majis Industrial Services, the wholly Omani government-owned water services utility, plans to set up a solar photovoltaic plant at its facilities within the Port of Sohar — the latest in a string of government and public sector organisations that are turning to sustainable energy sources for their electricity requirements.
A subsidiary of Oman Investment Fund (OIF), a sovereign wealth fund of the Sultanate of Oman, Majis has invited competent developers to bid for its contract for the design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of a grid-connected 1.3 MWp (megawatt-peak) per day capacity solar power plant. The deadline for submission of bids is January 22, 2019.
Majis has cited the introduction of Cost Reflective Tariffs (CRT) — higher tariffs applicable to large government, industrial and commercial consumers of electricity that came into force from January 2017 — as the primary motivation behind the decision to invest in solar-based electricity generation capacity.
A leader in industrial water services, Majis has invested tens of millions of Omani riyals in well-diversified water services infrastructure that is indispensable to the successful operation of industries and factories located within the Sohar Industrial Port Area (SIPA) and the adjoining Sohar Freezone. TURN TO P15



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